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Author: Matthew Reilly ISBN 10: 0330426583. Title: The Six Sacred Stones Item Condition: used item in a very good condition. Will be clean, not soiled or stained.
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For Jack West and his team, unlocking the secrets of the `Seven Ancient Wonders' has proved only the beginning. The world is still in mortal danger. The challenge now is to set six legendary diamonds known as the `Pillars' in their appointed places before the deadline when global destruction is predicted. But first Jack and his team must locate the exact positions of placement all around the world, at sites known as `the Six Sacred Stones'. What follows is a terrifying chase on a mountaintop railway in remotest China . . . A midnight expedition to unlock the prehistoric secrets of Stonehenge . . . Belly-crawling through subterranean tunnels infested with giant Nile crocodiles . . . Surviving the gruesome rituals of a cannibal tribe in forgotten jungle valleys of the Congo . . . A race-against-time submarine journey to an abandoned city hidden under the Cape of Good Hope . . . With only the riddles of ancient philosophers to guide them, they must find their way through complex networks of traps and labyrinths and ambushes - and all the while warding off hostile interference from some very powerful and determined enemies.
The writing is compelling, and some of the underlying premises intriguing, although off the beam in various details, but the plot is totally preposterous at so many levels (why would anyone build such large underground caverns, if they were really built for human-seized people? Can you really operate a Jumbo Jet from highways, like a Cessna? Would the ever-practical Chinese really build such a ridiculous prison arrangement?), and people seem to be killed off at an alarming rate, even though not all of them are dead. It's not clear which distortions of reality are intentional plot devices, and which are just sloppy research (of which there must have been a lot, to be fair - it has a very broad scope). Every other chapter requires a "deux ex machinas" to stop the plot ending dead like the protagonists, which is too many.